I'll defend it if you want. I browsed WSB a ton in 2016/2017, while in college. Doubled my initial investment (not much) in a year, and most importantly, learned a ton. I'm still trading now, but don't browse there as much and still have success. I guess maybe I'm one of the lucky ones? I have a friend who browsed the sub back then as well. He bought some of the meme stocks at the time (mostly AMD) and has been holding since. AMD was ~$7 then and is now ~$94.

Yeah, there's a lot of dumb crazy bets on there, and it has become a bit different since options trading started on Robinhood, but it's still a great place to learn things and get investment ideas.

Most of the meme stocks have seemed to perform well (outside of biopharmaceuticals they memed about back then).

That will increase the level of useful information: lots of people here are refusing to let their complete ignorance of WSB stop them from commenting on it.

green means a new account? ive never actually known what that meant

perhaps because they are afraid?

what does green mean?

EDIT: ah, new account.